looking into the future of memory

[konfyoused]

I had some thoughts that I thought i would throw out here for debate and see what happens with it.

Okay, so the main thought behind this,is at what point does the increased bandwith from the next generation of DDR memory become not worth the increase in latency? back in the days of the pentium 3's or athlon xp's cl2 latency ruled, now we're all the way up to cas 9 and in some cases higher. I'm not a memory guru or anything, but it seems like at some point you have to outgrow the basic technology and move on to something else. Any thoughts about when that might occur?

Let the bantering and discussions commence!

 

[ionicle]

well to go to lower latency would defeat the point...

so that aint gonna happen, we aint gonna go backwards

 

[konfyoused]

well to go to lower latency would defeat the point...

so that aint gonna happen, we aint gonna go backwards

what i was thinking is there should be a way to keep the bandwidth, but lower the latency as well, which would be win-win

 

[Stryker64]

My guess, 4GB Sticks of DDR3 RAM will become more common, and eventually 2GBs would be phased out.

 

[lasher]

Magnetic rams where the future of memory is going if the techies at IBM have anything to do with it.

Been mentioned as far back as 2007 this was the future. Think someone mentioned racetrack ram a few days ago.

http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20001207_mramimages.shtml

there have been discussions on lots of tech sites recently, and the BBC site.

but this is still a little way off for now.

 

[alicarve]

magnetic ram sounds good from what it says on that link

 

[konfyoused]

I agree, it sounds good, but I figure we'll have some intermediate steps between here and there. I was kinda wondering if a new generation improved RDRAM might make a reappearance. something where the latencies are low, and the ram in each channel matches the speed of the IMC. they would really have to reengineer it in order for it to provide the necessary bandwidth tho.

 

[Zraupp]

wow faster, cheaper sounds Great.

 

[mezmir]

The amount processed in one cycle of newer memory defeats the latency of old memory. its better and more expensive for a reason